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Acts of the Parliaments of England

Part 6 (1702-1705)

1702 (1 Ann.).

c. 1Henry Earl of Thomond's estate in Ireland: enabling his mother Lady Henrietta Obrien to make leases for discharging incumbrances and a £4000 charge for his sister's portion.

c. 2Relief of Frances Countess of Tyrconnel of Ireland.

c. 3Enabling Sir William Meredith to sell lands in Ashley (Cheshire) after settling other lands in lieu.

c. 4Francis Purefoy's estate: sale of lands and tithes for payment of debts.

c. 5Sale of lands in Whitchurch parish (Cheshire) for paying off incumbrances.

c. 6Enabling Warner Lee to make a jointure on his marriage.

c. 7Francis Wightwicke's (an infant) estate in Staffordshire: vesting in trustees for settling and conveying upon his marriage.

c. 8Thomas Rose's estate: confirmation of title to lands called Rempstone,

sale of lands called Carrants Court (Dorset) for payment of William Rose's (deceased) debts and for settling manor of Chedder Fitzwalters (Somerset) on Mary Rose, William's daughter, in lieu of her portion.

c. 9Confirmation of a purchase made by Queen and of an exchange between her and the deans and canons of the King's free chapel within the castle of Windsor.

c. 10John Earl of Exeter's estate: sale of manors and lands for payment of debts and performance of his will.

c. 11Montagu Earl of Abingdon's estate: sale of lands and purchase of others

to be limited to the same uses.

c. 12Relief of Dorothy Dowager Baroness of Upper Ossory and Captain James Roche with relation to the Irish forfeitures.

c. 13Sale of Attingham Manor (Salop.) and settling Selly Hall Farm and a

moiety of Temple Lawrne Manor (Worcestershire) in lieu thereof.

c. 14William Adams' estate: charging with portions and maintenance for his children William and Elizabeth.

c. 15Stephen and Dorothy Soam's estate: sale of part for payment of his debts and portions for two of their younger children.

c. 16Enabling the elder and the younger Robert Apreece to raise money out of their estate for payment of debts, includingthat due to the Queen.

c. 17Confirmation and settling of Job Marston's charities.

c. 18Relief of Thomas Keightley for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 19Enabling Jeffery Palmer to settle a jointure on Elizabeth his wife.

c. 46Henry Pawlett's estate: vesting in trustees for making provision for him (a lunatic) and his next heir and relations.

c. 48Relief of William Viscount Montjoy for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 49Relief of Robert Edgworth for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 50Mary Johnson's estate (Surrey, Sussex): sale of land for payment of debts of her husband William Johnson and settling his estate upon her and her children clear of incumbrances.

c. 51Enlarging the time for John Hill and his wife to enter their claims before the trustees for sale of the forfeited estates in Ireland concerning a judgment against Robert Grace; relief of creditors of John Grace and the widow,
Protestant children and creditors of the late Sir Patrick Trant with relation to the said forfeited estates; indemnifying the Earl of Carlingford concerning mortgage money owed by him to Sir Patrick Trant.

c. 52Relief of Edward Nugent for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 53Relief ofJoseph Mitchel for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 54Relief ofDennis Molony for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 55Extending the time for Cesar Bradshaw to prosecute his claim before the trustees for the Irish forfeitures.

c. 56Relief of Jane Lavallin for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 57Relief of James Eustace, Agmondisham Vesey, George Field and Thomas Brigstock for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 58Relief of Francis Spring and other Protestant tenants of the forfeited estates in Ireland; for confirming a Protestant settlement at Portarlington and a charity at Middleton (County Cork), and relief of Alice Dowager Countess of
Drogheda and Sir John Dillon.

c. 59Relief of Ignatius Gold and his family for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 60Relief ofSir William Ashurst for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 61Relief ofMary Vernon for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 62Relief ofKatherine O'Brien and her children for forfeited estates in

Ireland.

c. 63Relief of William Spencer and Lord Kenmare's wife and children for

forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 64Relief of Katherine Harris or Kife for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 65Relief ofSusanna Smith for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 66Relief of Captain Richard Wolseley and other Protestant lessees in Ireland.

c. 67Enlarging the time for Sir Stephen Fox to make his claim before the trustees for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 68Enlarging the time for Rebecca Viscountess Falkland, of Scotland, to enter her claim before the trustees for the forfeited estates in Ireland to a mortgage upon part of them.

c. 69Exempting Arthur French and his wife Sarah from accounting to the trustees for the forfeited estates in Ireland for the personal estate of Irriel Farrel, deceased.

c. 70Relief of Charlotte Talbot for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 71Philip Savage's recompense for charge of outlawries and for attending the trustees for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 72Relief of Maurice Annesley for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 73Relief of Thomas Lee and other executors of Sir John Heley and Peter Goodwin for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 74Relief of Thomas and Katherine Plunkett for forfeited estates in Ireland

and reversal of outlawries against John Mapas and Lawrence Fitz-Gerald.

c. 75Relief of John Ellis for forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 76Naturalization of de Bacolon, de Lannay, des Fourneaux and others.

c. 2William Peachey's estate: sale of part for payment of legacies.

c. 3Henry Duke of Beaufort's estate: settlement according to his marriage agreement.

c. 5Bishopric of Chichester's estate: extension of time to lease houses and ground in and near Chancery Lane.

see: Explaining and making more effectual an Act concerning the estate of

the Bishopric of Chichester 1708 (c. 10).

c. 6Enabling Sir Edward Williams to sell manors and lands in Brecknockshire and Radnorshire for payment of debts.

c. 7Way fromChancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields: better collecting of duties granted for making the way and determining them when the parties concerned are paid.

c. 8Thomas Fane's estate: payment of an annuity to Mildmay Fane for his maintenance and education until he is twenty-one years old.

c. 9Enabling Richard Lord Bulkeley Viscount Cashels and his son Richard Bulkeley to make a marriage settlement for Richard Bulkeley.

c. 10Confirmation of a partition made in 1634 between Sir Edmond Fowler and his wife Dame Ann and Elizabeth Buggin of manors and lands in Kent.

c. 11Incorporation of persons for the better providing for and setting at work

the poor of Gloucester.

c. 12Enabling Andrew Hacket to sell lands in Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Lichfield for making provision for his younger children, upon settling another estate in Stroxton (Lincolnshire) to the same uses.

c. 13Jonathon Castleman's estate: making provision for younger children and correcting an omission in his father's will of a power to make leases.

c. 14Enabling William Colman and others to sell lands for payment of debts and legacies of William Stawell.

c. 15John Cowper's estate in Essex: sale for payment of debts and legacies.

c. 16John Goddard's estate: better settlement for benefit of John and Mary, his children, during their minority.

c. 17Confirmation of the division of a third part of manor of Burton Dassett (Warwickshire).

c. 18Enabling the executrix of James Hoare to pay a sum in discharge of a trust reposed in her by his will.

c. 19Enabling Charles Aldworth to sell lands for payment of his father's debts and his sister's portions.

c. 20Charles Morris' estate: sale of part for payment of debts and making provision for younger children.

c. 21Improvement of a piece of ground in St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish for use of the poor and for other purposes.

c. 22James Supple's estate:enabling devisees to make leases for improvement.

c. 23Exchange of lands in Brampton (Northamptonshire) for lands in Wickham (Lincolnshire).

c. 24John Loane's estate: better execution of his will, sale of part for payment of debts and legacies and preservation of the residue.

c. 25Estate of AgmondishamVesey and his daughters Ann and Henrietta in

Kildare: sale for payment of debts and empowering Agmondisham to make leases.

see: Agmondisham Vesey benefit confirmation 1711 (c.20).

c. 26Sale of several estates for payment of debts and disposing of the residue money for the benefit of Giles Loane and other infants pursuant to their father's will.

c. 27Enabling John Arderne to pay his father's debts and make provision for his brother and sister.

c. 28Philip Caldecot's estate: mortgage of lands in Dorset for payment of debts and further provision for younger children.

Giles in the Fields (Middlesex) and settling lands in Whipsnade, Totternhoe and Studham (Bedfordshire) in lieu.

c. 20Enabling John Jenkins to sell lands in Durham and Northumberland for

payment of debts.

of debts and legacies and preserving residue for Thomas Bowes, an infant.

c. 22Enabling Arabella Foot to purchase lands for benefit of her son Topham with his money.

c. 23Enabling the Treasury to compound with John Ferrar for a debt due from

him as surety for John Mason late Receiver General for the County of

Cambridge and Isle of Ely.

c. 24Mary and William Bowdler's estate: vesting manor of Michael Church (Radnorshire) and other lands in Salop. in trustees for payment of William's debts and making provision for his younger children.

c. 25Settling manor of Creech (Somerset) in trustees and enabling them to renew leases for maintenance of younger sons of William Keyts during their minority.

c. 26John and Robert Holden's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and disposing of younger children apprentices.

c. 27Naturalization of Isaac Kops.

c. 28Naturalization of Rene Rance, Mathew Decker and others.

c. 29Naturalization of de Saint Leger, de la Grange, Wadden and others.

c. 30Sir Peter and Thomas Tyrrell's estate: vesting manor of Hanslop and Castlethrop and all their other lands in Buckinghamshire in trustees for sale of part for payment of debts and settling other lands in lieu.

c. 31Enabling Sir John Cowper and Anthony Henly to make a partition and grant building leases of several messuages and tenements in Lincoln's Inn Fields (Middlesex).

c. 32Sir Christopher Philipson's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and charging part with maintenance for a lunatic daughter.

c. 33William Carey's estate: vesting manor of Yeovillton (Somerset) and other lands in trustees for discharging incumbrances, making provision for younger children and settling other lands in Devon in lieu.

c. 34Mathew Holworthy's estate: sale of manors and lands and purchase of others to be limited to the same uses.

see: Clarification of an Act concerning Matthew Holworthy's estate

1705 (c. 41).

c. 35Enabling Bernard Cotton to sell part of his estate for payment of debts and confirming conveyances already made by himself and trustees.

c. 36Ambrose Andrews' estate: charging with money for payment of debts and correction of settlement for making a jointure and leases.

c. 39For better securing and vesting in Giles Frampton the manor and farm of Moorton alias Moreton and Hurst (Dorset) and other lands of William Frampton deceased and in such as are entitled in remainder after him upon Tregonwell
Frampton's death.

c. 40Enabling George Evelyn to raise portions for siblings.

c. 41James Torr's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and settlement of the other part.

c. 42Robert and William Coke's estate: payment of Robert's debts and making provision for Robert's wife and younger children.

c. 43Setting aside a voluntary settlement made by Mary Fermor and ratifying a partition of manors of Mersham and Pett and lands in Sussex between her, Bartholomew Walmesley and others.

c. 44John Briscoe's estate in Cumberland: improvement.

c. 45Making good the provision intended for Captain James Roch out of the forfeited estates in Ireland and restoring to the bishopric of Cloyne (Ireland) the manors and lands of Donomore.

c. 46John Hawe's estate in Staffordshire and Warwickshire: setting aside voluntary settlements, settling part on John Hawe and his son, making provision for his son's and daughter's maintenance, raising a portion for his
daughter and selling the residue for payment of his debts.

c. 47Sale of estate of John Digby in Buckinghamshire and division of proceeds between Sir John Conway and Richard Mostyn, settling estate of Sir John Conway in Flintshire and making provision for his children.

c. 48Further recompensing John Baker and family for the services of Colonel

Baker at Londonderry and stating accounts of the late receivers of rents

and profits of forfeited estates in Ireland.

c. 49Freedom of "Golden Starr" and "Bull," taken as prize, to trade as English ships.3

c. 51Naturalization of Henry de Hant, George Chabot and others.

1704 (3 & 4 Ann.).

c. 1For settling lands and fishery rights in the Society of the Governor and Assistants London of the new Plantation in Ulster, and an annual rentcharge of £250 on the Lord Bishop of Derry.

c. 2Naturalization of Thomas Levingston Viscount Teviott.

c. 3Naturalization of Louise Mary Cresset.

c. 4Thomas Freke's estate: power to grant leases, enabling George Pitt's son to make a jointure out of the estate when he marries, establishing a school in Iwerne Courtney and augmenting the vicarage of Cerne Abbas (Dorset).
c. 5Enabling Agnes Hacche, widow, and other trustees to make leases and sell

lands in Devon for payment of Robert Hacche's debts and legacies and for the maintenance and advancement of his daughters' portions.

c. 6Moses Gould's estate: confirming agreement for payment of his debts and maintenance of his younger children and for settling another part of the estate.

c. 7Daniel Drake's estate: sale for provision for widow and children.

c. 8Naturalization of Henry Bowman.

c. 9Estate of William Duke of Devonshire and William Cavendish Marquis of Hartington: mortgage for payment of debts.

c. 10Enabling John Lord Poulett and Bridget his wife to sell their interest in certain manors and lands in Kent and to purchase others to be settled to

c. 34Thomas Burr's estate: repayment of mortgage..

c. 35Confirmation of and making good Hugh Nanney's will.

c. 36Empowering the Treasury to compound with John Mason, former Receiver General for the county, university and town of Cambridge and Isle of Ely, and with John Silkman one of his sureties.

c. 37Charles Bludworth's estate: sale for payment of debts.

c. 38Thomas Guy's estate: sale for payment of debts.

c. 39John Proctor's estate: sale of lands in Shawdon, Shawdon Woodhouse and Crawley (Northumberland) upon settling others in the county in lieu.

c. 40John Sands' estate in Surrey: sale of part for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter.

c. 41Richard Ball's estate: sale of estate in Little Appleby and Great Appleby

in Derbyshire and Leicestershire, purchase of another to be settled to the same uses and laying out the residue to make provision for younger

children.

c. 42Enabling Edmond Waller to charge his estate with payment of his debts.

c. 43Thomas Hatcher's estate: sale or mortgage of part for payment of debts and for the better execution of his marriage settlement.

c. 44John Green's estates: sale of some in Hacklestone (Wiltshire) and settling

others in Gavellacre (Hampshire) to the same uses.

c. 45Naturalization of Margarita Cadogan, Gilbert Alfleck and John Louis.

c. 46James Griffin's estate: leasing part of the manor of Dingley and lands there for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children.

c. 47Estate of William and Clare Trafford and their eldest son William: better explanation of the settlement and making more effectual a provision for younger children.

c. 48William Lenthal's estate: sale of manor of Latchford and lands in Latchford and Haseley (Oxfordshire) for discharge of incumbrances.

c. 49Enabling William Cavendish to make a settlement in jointure when he marries, and for better raising the portions charged on his estate and for confirming the enfranchisement of copyhold estates made by his father in the manor of
Dovebridge (Staffordshire and Derbyshire).

c. 50Enabling Sir George Warburton to sell the manor of Pulford (Cheshire)

for payment of portions according to his marriage agreement and his

father's debts.

c. 51Joseph Pince's estate: sale of estates in Devon and city and county of Exeter for payment of debts and legacies and for a provision for himself, his wife and his family.

c. 57Sir Thomas and his son John Worsop's estate in Finsbury Fields or Moorfields in the parish of Shoreditch (Middlesex): sale for payment of debts and legacies and purchase of another in Ireland.

General for Cheshire and North Wales.

c. 59Joseph and Elizabeth Grainge's estate: sale for maintenence of Elizabeth pursuant to their marriage settlement and application of the residue for payment of Joseph's debts.

c. 60Richard and Frances Pate (his wife) Lister's estate in Cheshire and Chester: sale for payment of the debts of Frances' father Sir Thomas Smith, raising portions for her younger children and purchasing other lands to be
settled to the same uses.

c. 61Empowering the Treasury to compound with Michael Wicks late Receiver

General of the Plantation Duties in the Port of London.

see: Enabling the Treasury to compound with the executor of Michael Wicks

1711 (c. 22).

1705 (4 & 5 Ann.).

c. 1Thomas Chute's estate in Warwickshire: sale and purchase of other

lands in Norfolk to be settled to the same uses.

c. 2Naturalization of William Burnet.

c. 3Naturalization of Peter Silvestre.

c. 4Naturalization of Adelaide Duchess of Shrewsbury.

c. 5Exchange of parsonage house and glebe lands belonging to Watton at

Stone rectory (Hertfordshire) for another house and lands in Watton at

Stone belonging to Philip Boteler.

c. 6EnablingSir Thomas Cave to sell lands in Northamptonshire for

payment of siblings' portions and settlement of other lands in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to the same uses.

c. 7Confirmation of the marriageagreement of Charles and Dorothy Owen of Nash (Pembrokeshire).

c. 8James Hamilton's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and raising

portions for younger children and for making fee farms and leases for

lives during his minority.

c. 9Supplying a defect in the appointment of provisions for Henry Smalman's younger children and making such provisions more effectual.

c. 10Enabling John Edwards to sell lands in Norfolk for payment of debts.

c. 11To permit the making of clothes with cloth buttons for export for

clothing the army of the allies notwithstanding the Act against cloth

buttons [1698 c. 2].

c. 12Relief of Sir Stephen Evance and Henry Cornish.

c. 13John Asgill's relief relating to his purchase of part of the forfeited

estates in Ireland.

c. 14Naturalization of William Lewis Legrand.

c. 15Relief of Colonel Samuel Venner.

c. 16Naturalizing Jacob Pechells and others.

c. 17Enabling James Duke of Ormond and Charles Earl of Arran to settle fee farm rents in Tipperary (Ireland) pursuant to the earl's marriage agreement, and making good several grants in fee farm by the earl.

c. 34Relief of non commission officers and private soldiers of Lord

Drogheda's and Colonel Coot's Regiments.

c. 35Christopher Pegg's estate: sale of manor and estate of and in Hattersedge and Dore (Derbyshire), and mortgaging of part of manor and estate of and in Beauchiff and Strawberry Lee (Derbyshire) for payment of debts and
incumbrances and making provision for family.

c. 36EnablingWilliam Gomeldon to sell a farm in Kent to discharge an incumbrance on it and to pay his debts.

c. 39Nicholas Row's estate: sale of lands in Devon and Cornwall and application of proceeds for uses of marriage settlement and payment of

debts.

c. 40Relief of Colonel John Rice.

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c. 42William Forbes' estate: sale of manor of Barnwick Hall and other lands in Essex and purchasing others to be settled to the same uses.

c. 43Richard Thornhill's estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of debts and his sisters' portions, and securing residue of the purchase money to the uses of his marriage settlement.

c. 44Enabling John Brett Fisher and Judith his wife to sell lands for payment of his debts and making provision for his wife and future

children.

c. 45Bugden: to enable John Williams, an infant, to renew a lease of the parsonage, to settle the prebend of Budgen as an augmentation for the vicar and to vest the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the parish in Bishop of Lincoln.

c. 46John Stanhope's estate: sale of lands in Lincolnshire for payment of

debts.

c. 47Henry Raper's estate: taking the estate in law of a mortgage made by John Sands which is descended to the infant daughters and coheirs of John Pargiter Henry's trustees.

c. 48Empowering the Treasury to compond with Thomas Tomkins and John Chagneau and their securities for the debts owing by them to Her

Majesty.

c. 49Elizabeth Hicks' estate: sale of houses and lands in and near Portsmouth for payment of a debt and purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses.

c. 50Thomas Gower's estate: sale for payment of debts and settling the residue for the benefit of his daughters.

c. 51Estate of Valentine Crome of Maiden Early (Berkshire): sale for

payment of father's debts and making a provision for him and his

brother.

c. 52John Ballet's estate: sale of lands for faster payment of debts and

raising portions for younger children.

c. 53William and Thomas Lambard's estate: assurance of part of lands in Kent, assurance of other landsin lieu of another part and for better provision for younger children.

c. 54Foulke and his son Meredith Wynne's estate (Denbighshire): sale of part for the payment of debts and settlement of residue pursuant to

marriage articles.

c. 55Christopher and Christopher (his son) Reve's estate: sale for payment of their debts and legacies and for making provision for Christopher the younger's widow, Dorothy, and his infant son.